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Leading With Urgency: 5 Levers for Effective School Improvement and Lasting Change
Part of WestEd’s VITAL Education Series, Leading With Urgency introduces a practical, field-tested framework designed to help K–12 principals navigate the complex challenges of leading meaningful school change efforts.
Supporting Students and Staff Through Relationship-Centered Circles: Early Findings From EVOLVE
This WestEd brief shares early findings from EVOLVE, a Tier 2 relationship-centered circles program, showing gains in facilitator practice and improvements in student engagement, well-being, and connection.
Youth Perspectives on School Behavioral Health: What Young People With Lived Experiences in Justice Systems Want School Communities to Know
School behavioral health supports often fall short for the students who need them most, particularly young people whose lives are shaped by trauma, housing and…
Reframing Belonging: From How Students Feel to What K–12 Schools Build
This WestEd paper reframes student belonging as a condition schools actively build through everyday practices, defining four key elements and offering district and school leaders a practical shift beyond climate survey scores.
Building Safer Schools Through Connection, Support, and Belonging
This WestEd guide pairs five evidence-based school safety strategies with practical recommendations and California district examples, offering leaders a whole-person approach that builds safety through connection, support, and belonging.
Improving Attendance Through Human-Centered Leadership Practices
This brief from WestEd’s Western Educational Equity Assistance Center outlines human-centered leadership practices at the individual, collective, and systems levels to improve student attendance.
School-Based Behavioral Threat Assessment: A Review and Practical Considerations
This WestEd brief introduces school-based behavioral threat assessment (BTA) as a prevention-focused approach to school safety, reviewing leading models, evidence, and key practices for district leaders and threat assessment teams.
Declining Enrollment in America’s Public Schools: How States Can Respond Strategically
This WestEd and Bellwether policy brief examines sustained K–12 enrollment decline and offers three recommendations to help state leaders align funding, build local capacity, and strengthen public confidence in public schools.
Improving American Indian Student Outcomes in Nevada
An impact story describing how the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) at WestEd partnered with Nevada’s Office of Indian Education to develop the Plan to Improve Outcomes for American Indian Students in Nevada 2025–2030.
Reading to Learn: A 7-Step Framework for Optimizing Comprehension, Pre-K–12
Part of WestEd’s VITAL Education Series, this practical book provides a research-based, 7-step process to develop reading comprehension skills across all content areas and grade levels.
